Review of research on gesture

[Everett, Daniel]

This doesn't quite get the point, Sherman. Gesture is not sign language, though that is part of the continuum. 

Dan

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> On May 9, 2014, at 0:20, "Sherman Wilcox" <wilcox at unm.edu> wrote:
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>> On 8 May 2014, at 4:45, Everett, Daniel wrote:
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>> I argue that linguistic field researchers, theoreticians, and typologists cannot continue to work in a "gesture vacuum."
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> Of course, many linguists, anthropologists, and others have been saying this for decades. One example from hundreds:
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> "Communication by a system of gesture is not an exclusively human activity, so that in a broad sense of the term, sign language is as old as the race itself ..." (W.C. Stokoe, "Sign Language Structure," 1960, page 1)
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> Sherman Wilcox
> Department of Linguistics
> University of New Mexico